A little WIP snapshot for TEJO, the character from the Muscle Workshop. This beast is coming to life soOn 😉
TEJO ~ Muscle Setup Snapshot
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Character TD Demo – Kaylee Rig
A video demo by Jonas Avrin (@Jawabiscuit) featuring the Kaylee rig which is provided by Alex Curtis, director of Hephaestus, soon to be released. It shows techniques provided by Autodesk’s Animator Friendly Rigging series by Jason Schleifer. Special recognition goes to Image Metrics’ proprietary facial rigging tools for the automatic setup of the control rig for the face! I worked on the goggles and hair setup. Many thanks to Jonas for the mention 🙂
Reference! Reference! – Free Animation Database
Check out this cool site with tons of free animation reference libraries http://www.referencereference.com/. Title says it all!
Rise of the Planet of the Apes :: Production Focus
CGSociety talked to the leads at Weta Digital about their work on ‘The Rise of the Planet of the Apes’. VFX Supervisor Chris White gave some brilliant insights about the creative workflow.
You think too much & feel too little!
Probably the greatest speech ever by Charlie Chaplin presented with a blend of visual documentary. The speech is a part from one of Chaplin’s greatest movie ever “The Great Dictator” where he played a dual role of Hitler as “Hynkel” and a poor barber!
VIKING RIGG ~ Alex Angelis
Yet another very beautiful and neat rigging reel for a lovely character design. Alex is a self taught rigger and he mentioned in his comments that it took about a month of his free time to create this rig! I really enjoyed how he have setup-ed simple looking, flexible finger and foot controllers. The real neat job was done on the facial with Osipa style joystick controller UI and a layered secondary on mesh “sticky controllers”. Nice job … worth a watch 🙂
Tejo 360 Turntable!
Here is a 360 degree modeling turntable video of “Tejo”, the muscular creature for my Muscle Setup workshop! I had to work out a nice topology and edge flow maintaining the muscular anatomical volume of the character. Let’s see what this beast is up to with all those brute muscle! Gonna be FUN 😉
Troll Hunter VFX
Some video demos of “Troll Hunter VFX” work that I really liked and wanted to share. Outstanding job done to bring out the hyper-realism for the character!
Hephaestus Animated Short Film Work “WIP”
Directed by Alexander Curtis and produced by Joshua Brock and Paige Day, comes an animated short that I luckily got to work on as a Character Rigger. I did rigging for Kaylee’s hair and goggles with the supervision of my good friend, Jonas Avrin. Kaylee is (one of the) lead character for the short! Stay tuned folks, the movie should be out and public in a few months time. Till then feel free to watch and share the reel below. You can find out some cool color renders of the film in Alexander’s animation demo reel 🙂
Facial Motion Capture R&D
Hi there everyone! It’s been a little while since I blogged something about myself 😉
Here is a little R&D video of facial MoCap animation. I really wanted to do a MoCap animation for a long time, specially from the moment I watched “The Rise of the Planet of the Apes” movie in the theatre (was an awesome movie). The MoCap animation demonstrated in this video is optics based. I used my mobile phones video camera to record the facial expression footage. Facial markers or stickers used for tracking process were glued to my “skinny” face 😀
Anyways … a little bit of research work that I did during my weekend! Hope you guys like it 🙂
P.S. The idea, tips and techniques applied in this video is a part of my online rigging workshop for Motion Capture Facial Setup!
More Info : https://puppeteerlounge.com/
Really interesting read blogged by Jonas : http://www.jonasavrin.com/2011/08/16/indie-facial-performance-capture-rd/